--- In [email protected], "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My Stonewall tossed me a few times so bad an ambulance had to be > called once, I thought I had broke my back. People said "now he > knows, he has LEARNED how to get a human off his back and he is > getting better and better at it. " and they would tell me to sell him. >
I think they can learn how to get people off, and some of them will keep doing it, as long as the problem is still present in their minds, or in their bodies. Actually my mule Celie has tossed someone, really bad, and tried to toss someone else. This is one of the reasons I really take my time with her, she is easily pushed to the point where she gets upset and frustrated. I really don't want to be tossed and she is good at it. I don't think we are going to have to go there if we come to terms with things together, she is willing when she understands what is expected. She loves attention on her, she has always been fussy, not the easiest personality, slowly she has become much easier. I really think she could get into trouble with the wrong person, pushing her too fast, getting frustrated. She got really upset when I went to move her to the new place recently, she just knew something was going on, and she gets all hyped up about it, she almost broke my nose in the stall, she didn't really mean to, but she goes to flight, freak out mode pretty quickly. Then she settles right down and seems like another animal in other situations. Slowly, settling down, I think one day she will be very dependable for me. I think she might have a personality like Stonewall, I feel the same way about her, I adore her. I bought her because I knew if I didn't, I would never get over it, I would be trying to find her forever. Horses are individuals and each one may take a different approach. I can't imagine my Icelandics acting like this, they don't, but it's possible that there are Icelandics out there who might have more of a reaction to things. Raudi is a prescious, beautiful horse, but he is > dangerous, and at todays horse market prices dangerous horses go for a > lot less than 3000 WITH papers. around here they go for around 125 > and sometimes no one will even bid, and they will have WGC sire or > dam, papered, futurity horses etc. > > Have you seen the horse market lately?? For 3000 I would expect a > rideable, ground trained decent horse. Every horse has issues and > quirks. Even the nicest horse can kill you DEAD, but only a fool or > green horse person about to be killed would pay 3000 for a registered, > known to be dangerous, bucking bronc horse. > Horses are not getting good prices at all, I believe things really started to go downhill in 2003 around here, that's when I remember breeders saying it had taken a dive. I have seen plenty of TWH's advertised around here for $500 or trade. Rocky mountains, under $2000, trained and safe. I think the thing to do is really be careful about placing a horse like this, really make sure that someone knows they are getting into a rehab situation, it's too bad that peole lose money on this, but horses are a risk, always, they are large animals, it does seem that a lot of people who buy Icelandics are new to horses, sometimes it isn't a good combination. Kim
